India, Jan. 17 -- Tens of thousands of Cubans demonstrated Friday outside the US Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the US Government release former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. They crowded into the open-air "Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist" plaza across from the embassy in a rally organised by the Cuban Government as tensions between Cuba and the US spike following the US attack January 3 on Venezuela.

The 32 Cuban officers were part of Maduro's security detail killed during the raid on his residence in Caracas to seize the former leader and bring him to the US to face drug trafficking charges. "Humanity is experiencing something very complex, and (the US) is governed by a presi...